The place of education in Bourdieu's sociology:A descriptive analysis

Sociologists read the social world from different paradigms, and the place of sociology of education in these different readings covers a wide area. People with different views, from Structuralism to Symbolic Interactionism, from Durkheim to Marx, have evaluations about education within their theories. This situation is closely related to the importance of educational sociology in reorganizing and constructing social relations. Within the sociology of education, the phenomenon of education is considered as a means of reproduction and an effective factor in socialization. Although the phenomenon of education is discussed in different aspects in different theories, the point that everyone has a common idea is that education is accepted as a social tool. Pierre Bourdieu emphasizes cultural factors in the production of social relations. Bourdieu analyzes the phenomenon of education from this perspective. In this study, Bourdieu's works in this context were tried to be analyzed and his views on the phenomenon of education were tried to be discussed with a holistic approach. In general, the aim of this study is to contribute to the literature in question. In this research, an attempt was made to make a critical analysis of the phenomenon of education based on Bourdieu's ideas.